Guided practices:
poetry and practice - the peace of wild things
Guided practices help us to pause, rest, focus and deeply experience the present moment of our life. They remind us to come back to ourselves over and over, so that resting our presence in our body becomes a habit.
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Wishing you much joy and ease in your practice,
Orlaith
the peace of wild things
This poem of Wendell Berry is an invitation to us to rest in our natural state, without grasping or resisting this moment.
May you rest in the grace of the world.
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.